A long-running campaign to fully subject the Federal Reserve to outside review could come down to a handful of moderate Democrats. The ďAudit the FedĒ movement has grown from an oddball pet project of former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) into legislation that was passed with broad bipartisan majorities in the House two Congresses running, before stalling in Democratic-led Senates. With Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) looking to follow in his fatherís footsteps with a new audit bill, the prospects of a GOP-controlled Congress actually sending a measure to the president is more real than it has ever been before. But clearing...

More than a dozen congressional Democrats say they plan to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuís speech to a joint session of Congress amid conflicting signals over whether he will pull out from the March 3 address. Netanyahu struck a defiant tone during a campaign event in Israel on Monday, saying he was ďdeterminedĒ to present the case for why Israel opposed the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran ďbefore the members of Congress and the American people.Ē ďThis is not a political issue or a party issue, neither here nor there. This is an existential issue, and I approach it...

While the national media is busy convincing the American electorate that the Supreme Court ruled that no one can ever touch a birth control pill ever again because the GOP hates women, let me present to you a story that would be a national outrage emblematic of half the countryís valuesÖif it involved a Republican. Credit to the Richmond Times-Dispatch for at least getting the ďDĒ in the lede. HENRICO ó A special grand jury today issued five indictments against Del. Joseph D. Morrissey, D-Henrico, adding to a long political and legal career marked by controversy, sanctions and, now, allegations...

(CNSNews.com) - "The best thing we can do to grow the economy of our country, keep America number one, is to unleash the power of women,Ē House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the National Partnership for Women and Families Thursday in Washington, D.C. Pelosi said the Democrats' economic agenda has three pillars, including ďfair pay, whether itís the Paycheck Fairness Act or raising the minimum wageĒ; paid family leave; and "affordable, quality" child care. ďIn the last couple of days Iíve been working with members on our economic agenda for America, and so we said how long weíve been...

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) rose from his seat on Tuesday during a congressional hearing into the Affordable Care Actís problematic roll-out. He accused his Republican colleagues in the House of dishonestly seeking to identify the problems with the ACA because they would prefer to see it repealed entirely. Pascrell began by insisting that, even though Democrats opposed Medicare Part D in the Bush Era, they worked to make sure that the program was a success. He became animated as he said that Democrats put aside their opposition to Bush in order to make a policy objective work for the good...

Caution: Strong language ahead as the Democrat Party reviews their shaky footing as one scandal and embarrassment cascades onto another. On Monday, a reporter for the often-liberal National Journal reported that a top Democratic strategist with ties to the White House and Capitol Hill wrote an email with a subject line ďDem Party is F****d.Ē Ron Fournier, the National Journal reporter, noted that the email linked to an article in the Los Angeles Times that has joined the rest of the usually-lefty publications who have grown tired of defending he indefensible Obamacare healthcare overhaul.

The U.S. House of Representatives argued over Obamacare in a rare late-night session Saturday, and the late hour seemed to have a strange effect on at least one congresswoman. Politico reporter Ginger Gibson tweeted that a few members reeked of alcohol, but it would seem some of them donít need any liquid courage to make questionable comments. U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., used a reference to the Bible to make her point against delaying Obamacare. But in paraphrasing Galatians 6:7, she deleted God from the scripture. ďMr. Speaker, be not deceived. The people are not mocked,Ē Moore said. ďIn 24,...

Who would you blame for a government shutdown? I am sick of this question being asked and it causes a barf alert in me. It skews surveys because of course I would "blame" the GOP. Except "blame" isn't the word to use. It should be "credit". Who would you credit for a government shutdown?

A pair of Democratic lawmakers are proposing steep new taxes on handguns and ammunition, and tying the revenues to programs aimed at preventing gun violence. Called the ďGun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act," the bill sponsored by William Pascrell, D-N.J., and Danny Davis, D-Ill., would nearly double the current 11 percent tax on handguns, while raising the levy on bullets and cartridges from 11 percent to 50 percent. "This bill represents a major investment in the protection of our children and our communities, and reflects the long-term societal costs of gun and ammunition purchases in our country,Ē Pascrell said....

The Obama administration faced a backlash from congressional Democrats on Friday following revelations that the National Security Agency broke privacy rules and overstepped its authority thousands of times since 2008. The details were reported late Thursday in The Washington Post, based on an audit and other secret documents provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The report challenged claims by President Obama just last week that the NSA was not abusing its authority, and complicated his effort to reassure Americans and Congress that -- with a little more oversight and transparency -- the surveillance programs are nothing to be worried about....

<p>I just ran into a young man who is very active in politics and even ran for mayor of his hometown.</p>
<p>I'll spare his name but, he and his family are very prominent in the 16th district and BIG TIME Republicans/Conservative.</p>

Democratic congressman William Lacy Clay of Missouri blamed (Republican) congressional budget cuts for the terror attack on Americans in Benghazi. Clay made the statement at a hearing for whistleblowers on Capitol Hill. Video clip at link.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior Democratic senator who helped write President Barack Obama's health care law stunned administration officials Wednesday, saying openly he thinks it's headed for a "train wreck" because of bumbling implementation. "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told Obama's health care chief during a routine budget hearing that suddenly turned tense. Baucus is the first top Democrat to publicly voice fears about the rollout of the new health care law, designed to bring coverage to some 30 million uninsured Americans through a mix of government programs and...

While President Obamaís administration has suggested that the Secret Service is to blame for the closure of White House tours, the onus now falls on the Democrat-controlled Senate. On Wednesday, Democrats rejected a Republican attempt to reopen the White House tours in a straight party-line vote. 54 Democrats voted against reopening the tours. None have voted to defund President Obamaís golf trips. The amendment, sponsored by Senator Tom Coburn, required 60 votes to pass.

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) says, ďcorporations control the patterns of thinkingĒ in the United States and that the Bill of Rights to the Constitution should be amended so that the government is given the power to restrict freedom of speech. "We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations," said Johnson. ďThese corporations, along with the people they support, other millionaires who theyíre putting into office, are stealing your government. Theyíre stealing the government and the U.S. Supreme Court was a big enabler with the Citizens United case,Ē Johnson...

The head of the House Democratic campaign arm this week proposed a constitutional amendment that would give the winner of the popular vote in the presidential race an additional 29 electoral votes. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) did not offer an explanation in the joint resolution filed in the House for why he was proposing to change the way elections in the U.S. are decided. Under the Constitution, the candidate who wins at least 270 electoral votes wins the presidency, regardless of the popular vote. The prospect of a split between the popular vote and the Electoral College usually provokes cries

Romney should highlight Carter's failing policy vis-a-vis Iran, that Obama continued in his deafening silence as the Islamic Republic massacred protesters (2009). Link 9/11/2001, Benghazi 9/11/2012, Afghanistan Green on Blue attacks. As the real common ideology of radical Islam. THE threat. Obama's PC rephrasing the real war on the West, is NOT working. Nor does it give Moral Clarity and conviction for our forces. Two simple questios: 1.) How was it in US national interest... Obama's veto power anti-congress decision to intervene in Libya in 2011? 2.) What conditions did we ever put forward for the MB regime in Egypt,...

You Didn't Build That - PolitiZoid Published onSep 19, 2012byRightChange 1,845,209 views 3,319 likes, 482 dislikes President Obama says his "You Didn't Build That" comment was taken out of context. Here is Obama in his own words explaining that to people who are just trying to run their business without the government interfering. http://youtube.com/watch?feature=m-trends&v=WSqYFN9GrUA

DARRELL ISSA SAYS REQUESTS FOR BETTER PROTECTION WERE DENIED By Posted :27 PM CDT 1 image Touch for photo gallery (NEWSER) Ė The White House response to the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi keeps generating headlines. Today, Republicans Darrell Issa and Jason Chaffetz laid out about a dozen incidents they say occurred prior to the Sept. 11 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens. In their letter to Hillary Clinton, they assert "the US mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi," but all were denied by officials in Washington. Asked about it today, White House...

Please excuse the loose use of the term "outsource" in my headline. But now that the Washington Post, BuzzFeed Politics, and Barack Obama have defined outsourcing as "Something Romney never did but is guilty of anyway," I wanted to get in the spirit of things. Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been running around for a few days now sliming up the airwaves with smears and innuendo that started with this article written by Vanity Fair's Nicholas Shaxson, a bigtime leftist and Occupy supporter. Essentially, the Wasserman Schultz talking point has been: "We don't know what Romney's hiding...

The House on Friday morning rejected a Democratic resolution citing House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) for running a biased investigation against Attorney General Eric Holder, and for conducting a "witch-hunt" against Holder. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) brought up the resolution saying Issa's investigation "discredits the integrity of the House," after which Republicans quickly made a motion to table the resolution. That GOP motion was approved on a 259-161 vote. More than 20 Democrats voted with Republicans.

Temple Israel in Miami, Fla., canceled an upcoming speech by Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Thursday. Temple officials canceled the affair after a prominent Republican donor left the congregation in protest. According to Erika Bolstad of McClatchy Newspapers, the donor was 81-year-old philanthropist Stanley Tate, who has ties to the Romney campaign.

Even though... Even though the GOP was the first to promote a Black (African-American) to the highest office on record (Condi Rice), yet the leftists dare to charge the Republicans with intolerance... Even though the TeaParty endorsed Allen West (Black), it's still branded as some bunch of White "racists," by liberal loons. Even though Obama is of African decent, he never uttered a worthy act/message against the Arab Islamic genocide in Sudan (3.5 million, dead). Even though "taxing the rich," won't even scratch the surface of our economic problem, Obamaniacs make it THE issue. Even though, stingy billionaire, immoral Warren...

A former North Carolina Democratic Party staffer was sexually harassed by a party official, made a financial settlement with the party and signed a non-disclosure agreement to keep the incident quiet. ďIf this hits the media, the Democratic Party, our candidates, and our credibility are doomed in this election,Ē reads one email exchange between state Democratic leaders. An email chain between those Democratic leaders, obtained by The Daily Caller, indicates the executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Jay Parmley, and the alleged sexual harassment victim both signed non-disclosure agreements. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/13/nc-dem-official-sexually-harrassed-staffer-party-fears-credibility-doomed/#ixzz1rwtJpJrP

Lee Whitnum, an author from Greenwich, is running to be the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat from Connecticut, called U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT), one of her opponents, a "whore" for Israel during a debate last night. "I am dealing with whore here, who sells his soul to AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), who will say anything for the job," she said, in regards to Murphy.

(Politico 44) ó The staffer for DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who posted the controversial ĎJewbagí photo on her Facebook page in 2006 is no anonymous aide ó but the daughter of Mark and Nancy Gilbert, two major Florida donors who have raised more than $500,000 for the Obama campaign. Danielle ďDaniĒ Gilbert, according to party sources, was tapped by Wasserman Schultz to serve as a liaison to the Jewish community, even though party officials and people close to Obama told her that more senior Democrats were already handling those responsibilities. Wasserman Schultz has thus far refused to fire or...

Cynthia Clinkingbeard, a BSU professor and Democratic candidate for Congress, has been arrested by Boise police after walking into a Staples store, making ďstrange, threatening remarks,Ē and pulling a gun on employees.

So the Democratic National Committee (DNC) gave a walk-through Wednesday for network journalists planning on covering the party's nominating convention this summer in Charlotte. But while the DNC is trumpeting the convention as "the most open and accessible in history," the Charlotte Observer's Mark Washburn complained that the briefing, attended by some 500 journalists, was kept strictly off-the-record. What's more, Washburn notes, when he complained about what he saw as ludicrous ground rules for the briefing, the convention's chief operating officer, Theodore LeCompte snipped that

WHO SPEAKS FOR MOST OF US? How come the 1% says it represents the ‚Äú99%‚ÄĚ? SPRING? Why is the Christian (and all infidels) ‚Äėwinter‚Äô called the Arab ‚Äúspring?‚ÄĚ IMPROVING... Why is Obama saying he ‚Äúimproved‚ÄĚ the ‚Äėworsening‚Äô state of the economy? [MUSLIM] MAN MADE DISASTERS Obama-dictionary. How come most ‚Äėman made disasters‚Äô all over the globe is by the ‚Äėreligion‚Äô of [Islamic lobby] CAIR, I mean the religion of ‚Äúpeace?‚ÄĚ INVEMTED PEOPLE Why do the ‚Äėinvented people‚Äô (Arab immigrants/invaders, AKA Palestinians) ‚Äúdeserve‚ÄĚ a State but real indigenous people like, Kurds suffering from Islamic racism by Iran, Syria and former Iraqi-regime...

President Obama launched a three-day bus tour through two states critical to his 2012 reelection campaign by kicking Senate Republicans for blocking his jobs bill, saying he is breaking up his plan because "maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing at once."

ALBANY, September 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - David Weprin, a Democrat in the New York State Assembly who supported New York¬ís recent gay ¬ďmarriage¬Ē law, has lost a bid for a U.S. congressional seat, giving the seat to a Republican for the first time in 88 years.¬† Both traditional marriage supporters and local sources say that the marriage vote was critical to Weprin‚Äôs downfall in the heavily Orthodox Jewish district, despite himself being an Orthodox Jew. The special election on Tuesday was held to replace former Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, representing New York‚Äôs 9th District, following his resignation in June...

Via Andrew Lawton at Landmark Report: One of Gibsonís leading competitors is C.F. Martin & Company. The C.E.O., Chris Martin IV, is a long-time Democratic supporter, with $35,400 in contributions to Democratic candidates and the DNC over the past couple of elections (though, to be fair, he did donate a whopping $750 to Republican Congressmen in the 90s.) According to C.F. Martinís catalog, several of their guitars contain ''East Indian Rosewood.' In case you were wondering, that is the exact same wood in at least ten of Gibsonís guitars. If true, it adds another piece to an increasingly disturbing puzzle.

PLEASE COPY AND PASTE BELOW AND E-MAIL OR FAX Speaker Boehner http://www.speaker.gov/contact/ FAX- 202-225-5117 Email:speakerboehner@mail.house.gov __________________________________________________________ Speaker Boehner, This is a plea for you to exercise your responsibility to control our rogue Administration and itís arbitrary decision to use U.S. planes and arms against Khadaffi in Libya. The sixty days for Congressional approval have ended. The implications here are monumental and disastrous for our democratic republic. Our president, who is showing clear signs of becoming a traitor, has used his own simple judgement to turn the might of our military against another country, Obamaís enemy du jour. He does not...

House members side with Netanyahu House lawmakers from both parties are siding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over President Obama in their differing approaches to the Israel-Palestine border dispute. Obama last week called for Israel's 1967 borders to mark the "foundation" for renewing stalled peace talks between the two sides Ė a concession to Palestine that Netanyahu has bluntly rejected, including in remarks to a joint meeting of Congress Tuesday. "The vast majority of the 650,000 Israelis who live beyond the 1967 lines reside in neighborhoods and suburbs of Jerusalem and greater Tel Aviv," Netanyahu told lawmakers in his...

We all know that people at opposite ends of the political spectrum often really can't see eye to eye. Now, a new report published online on April 7th in Current Biology, reveals that those differences in political orientation are tied to differences in the very structures of our brains. Individuals who call themselves liberal tend to have larger anterior cingulate cortexes, while those who call themselves conservative have larger amygdalas. Based on what is known about the functions of those two brain regions, the structural differences are consistent with reports showing a greater ability of liberals to cope with conflicting...

A Democratic lawmaker Wednesday clarified his opinion on the new head of the Democratic National Committee after some interpreted it as criticism. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) said he has full confidence that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) will perform well and that he did not intend for his comments to be seen as critical of the party's choice or the congresswoman. He did reiterate that she will likely experience stress, because neither role is a "part-time job." "Clearly, some of the press would like some kind of fight in the Democratic Party,

Despite brutal weather, today could be the biggest yet for protesters in Madison, as most union workers across the state have a furlough day today for the holiday, and they are reportedly going to be bused in from all around Wisconsin. Bitter rainy weather drove the people and protests inside Sunday, where for a sixth straight day demonstrators packed the Capitol rotunda, talking up unions - and talking trash about new Governor Scott Walker, reports CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers. He says taxpayers can no longer afford protracted contract battles with the state's powerful state worker unions

On Thursday, February 17, 2011, the House of Representatives voted on an amendment to a continuing funding resolution that would defund nine extra-constitutional White House "czars." Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) proposed the amendment to eliminate "a very disturbing proliferation of czars" in the Obama administration, including czars for auto industry manufacturing policy, green jobs, health care, energy and climate, urban affairs, policy on the Guantanamo Bay detention center, and TARP executive compensation among them. Scalise: "These unappointed, unaccountable people...are literally running a shadow government, heading up these little fiefdoms that nobody can really seem to identify where they are or...

The Memphis Democrat has been called out by Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" for his "wrong" choice of words. He's gone toe-to-toe with Anderson Cooper on CNN, who called him a hypocrite. Rush Limbaugh called him "pathetic." And people across the spectrum have called on him to apologize. His newfound notoriety stems from a Tuesday night speech in which Cohen called Republicans' talking point about "a government takeover of health" the kind of repeated "big lie" Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels perfected.

The point that many people seem to be missing in the Florida Senate saga is that this whole mess actually has very little to do with Rep. Kendrick Meek-- it's all about a much broader fear among senior Democrats that they may be about to lose control of the chamber. The real story is how bad the broader electoral map has gotten for Democrats. Top Democratic officials privately are getting increasingly worried they'll lose the Senate. They've reviewed private polling numbers that suggest Sen. Patty Murray of Washington has a razor-thin lead of about two points over Republican Dino Rossi....

TYLER, Texas ó Most political candidates promise to start a new program or policy on their first day in office, but Bill White has different plans if elected Texas governor. The Democrat says his first bold move would be into a mobile home. In another jab at Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who is costing taxpayers $10,000 a month by renting a mansion outside Austin, White vowed during a swing through East Texas on Wednesday to move into a trailer home if elected. The millionaire businessman and former Houston mayor currently lives in a 4,122-square-foot home appraised at $2.1 million, but...

CNN, a few minutes ago in 'The Situation room" tried very hard to "explain" the democrats in their attack ads... under a title "Outrageous Campaign ads." One of the "chiefs" starring in the attack ads is that infamous Frl. Sentaor (Grayson) trying to "Taliban-ize" his Rep. opponent. My point is that this is one field where Democrats "won," who's more dirty. I wonder if the right can use the entire demonization-campaign-by-the-Democrats, as a theme in and of itself. Meantime I salute Jack Cafferty that (at least in this instance) he did denounce Grayson that this dirty campaign "doesn't work." as...

And the hits from the heartland just keep coming. In 2006, Democrats swept statewide races in Ohio and declared that they had turned the once solidly Republican state into a Democratic stronghold, led by the duo at the top of the ticket, Governor Ted Strickland and Lt. Governor Lee Fisher. Four years later, the two have gone into free-fall, according to two Quinnipiac polls. First, yesterdayís poll shows the incumbent Governor trailing his Republican challenger, John Kasich, by 17 points:

WASHINGTON - Former Tennessee Gov. Winfield Dunn will be in Memphis Oct. 9 for a fundraiser breakfast for 9th Congressional District Republican candidate Charlotte Bergmann, he confirmed this afternoon. "She is our nominee and from all that I've been told she's a fine person with excellent credentials, and it's on that basis I agreed to come down and lend what influence I might to her efforts," Dunn said. "She's someone I look forward to meeting." Bergman is running against Democratic incumbent Steve Cohen.

Expert says Paladino victory should raise a red flag for NYS Democrats Patricia Donovan Release Date: September 15, 2010 BUFFALLO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo political scientist James Campbell, a veteran political forecaster, says "The frustration of conservatives and the power of the Tea Party movement was demonstrated once again in the victory of Carl Paladino over the GOP's establishment-backed candidate Rick Lazio."